Turned bad-behavior back on (Saturday 15th of November 2008 09:26:33 AM)
I had to turn the bad behavior plugin back on, (it has been off for 6 months now), as some
moron does not seem to get the point.I have deleted around 70 spam blogs, (I must admit, it
took me about 10 seconds to do ...
(more)Rain... Joy. (Friday 25th of July 2008 12:38:00 PM)
Well, I'm pretty bored. I'm watching it rain, watching the huge lightning bolts hit
God-knows-what, and typing up this blog. It's pretty boring... Don't know what it is, rain
makes me insanely bored. Honestly, I have no idea wether to be happy ...
(more)Pictures of the Basilica Block Party (Friday 11th of July 2008 06:07:23 AM)
Pictures of the Basilica Block PartyThe Basilica Block Party has always been one of the coolest
happening events of the year. Pictures of the Basilica Block Party. Pictures of the Basilica
Block Party. (more…)Basilica Block Party 2007 The Basilica ...
(more)Three ISPs Agree To Block Child Porn (Tuesday 10th of June 2008 11:55:27 PM)
Goobergunch and other readers sent in word that Sprint, Time Warner, and Verizon have agreed to
block websites and newsgroups containing child pornography. The deal, brokered by New York
spouter General Andrew Cuomo, occurred after Cuomo's office in peril ...
(more)Microsoft IM Blocking YouTube Links (Saturday 10th of May 2008 06:00:06 PM)
A number of readers are sending word that the blogosphere and Twittersphere are alight with
reports of Microsoft's new block on messages containing YouTube URLs . Both MSN envoy and
Windows Live harbinger reportedly equipment the block. One blogger sniffed ...
(more)Spammers Hijacking IP Space (Wednesday 30th of April 2008 03:54:40 AM)
Ron Guilmette writes "As reported in the union Post's Security Fix blog, a substantial hunk of
IP address space has ostensively been taken over by notorious mass e-mailing company Media
Breakaway, LLC, formerly known as OptInRealBig, via means that are ...
(more)Google Ends Silence On C Block Auction (Friday 04th of April 2008 11:40:53 PM)
Phurge found a post on the Google Policy Blog in which they lift the cone of silence that had
been imposed by regulation over the new concluded FCC electromagnetic spectrum auction. As some
had speculated, Google was in it mainly to force some openness ...
(more)Discussion of Internet Addiction as Mental Illness Resurfaces (Tuesday 18th of March 2008 10:00:02 PM)
Lone Writer writes "The report section of the star-spangled banner Journal of Psychiatry for
March offers the opinion that infobahn addiction is a 'compulsive-impulsive' disorder, and
should be added to the official guidebook of disorders. The opinion ...
(more)Finnish Censorship Expanding (Tuesday 19th of February 2008 04:15:03 AM)
Thomas Nybergh lets us know about the secret list maintained by the Finnish National Bureau of
Investigation, containing an estimated 1,700 foreign "child pornography'" sites. These are
mostly in the US and the EU, and certainly not all of them contain ...
(more)ISP Block on Pirate Bay Not Having Desired Effect (Monday 11th of February 2008 11:15:04 PM)
TechDirt is reporting that the recent block placed on The Pirate Bay torrent site is not only
rather ineffective, but literally driving more traffic to the site because of the attention.
"The news from The Pirate Bay appears to confirm this suspicion. ...
(more)Mapping the Brain's Neural Network (Sunday 25th of November 2007 12:30:04 PM)
Ponca City, We Love You writes "New technologies could soon allow scientists to provoke a
complete wiring diagram of a piece of brain. With an estimated 100 billion neurons and 100
trillion synapses in the human brain, creating an all-encompassing map ...
(more)FCC Puts 4.6 Billion Minimum Bid on Spectrum Auction (Wednesday 22nd of August 2007 11:45:03 AM)
ChainedFei writes "Wired News notes that the Spectrum auction is moving forward, with the FCC
placing a minimum bid for the C-block spectrum being offered at $4.6 billion. That,
coincidentally, was the amount that Google fronted as a minimum bid to endorse ...
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